Library News

Find or rediscover some of the most useful business and data tools available to you through the Syracuse University Library subscriptions.

Thursday, January 27, 2011, 12:30-3:30 p.m.
Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, 1st floor of Bird Library

Drop by and talk to information professionals from vendor companies and learn better ways to find business information and source data for your research, projects and business plans. Demonstrations and handouts will be provided by representatives from:

• CQ Press - A division of Sage Publications (CQ Political Reference Suite, CQ Researcher, CQ Weekly and more)
• Gale Cengage Learning (Business & Company Resource Center, RDS Business Suite/Tablebase)
• Mergent, Inc. (Mergent Online)
• Geographic Research Inc. (SimplyMap)
• ProQuest LLC (ABI/Inform, Statistical Datasets, Snapshots and more)
• Standard Rate & Data Service (SRDS Media Solutions)

We will also have brochures and handouts available for IBISWorld, Plunkett and World Advertising Research Center (WARC), and librarians demonstrating Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) and Choices III (from Experian), among other databases.

Prizes, giveaways, and refreshments will be provided thanks to generous donations from all of our attending vendors.

Posted by Pamela McLaughlin on January 18, 2011 | Permalink

Douglas Ballman of the University of Southern California's Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education will present an open training session on the Visual History Archive (VHA) on Friday, November 12 from 10:00 - 11:30 a.m. in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons in Bird Library. The session will cover the basics of accessing the VHA as well as strategies for incorporating its use in courses.

Syracuse University is one of just 26 institutions in five countries worldwide to provide access to the complete Visual History Archive, an online collection of video interviews of Holocaust survivors, rescuers and liberators, and war crimes trial participants.
The VHA is one of the largest databases of its kind, comprising nearly 52,000 video testimonies in 32 languages and representing 56 countries. It is fully indexed and searchable through a set of more than 50,000 keywords and phrases, 1.2 million names, and 500,000 images, allowing users to retrieve whole testimonies or segments within testimonies that relate to their areas of interest.

Inspired by his experience making Schindler's List, Steven Spielberg founded the Shoah Foundation Institute in 1994 to gather and preserve video testimonies from survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust. The resulting Visual History Archive contains testimonies from Jewish survivors, homosexual survivors, Jehovah's Witness survivors, liberators and liberation witnesses, political prisoners, rescuers and aid providers, Roma and Sinti (Gypsy) survivors, survivors of Eugenics policies, and war crimes trials participants.

Says Harvey Teres, Director of the Judaic Studies Program: "The Visual History Archive is the largest collection of testimony ever compiled. It is a database replete with stories both harrowing and heroic, and will be of interest to anyone who wants to understand the modern world in all its historical and moral complexity. The Archive includes victims of Nazism persecuted for their Jewish religion, political views, sexual orientation, or ethnicity. Its sophisticated research tools offer myriad paths through the vast collection that will support many kinds of inquiry. I hope that the Archive will become a part of every student's education at Syracuse, as well as a component of a wide range of scholarly projects undertaken by our faculty across the schools and colleges."

Given the broad scope and diverse content of the VHA, the testimonies have the potential to support research and pedagogy in a variety of disciplines. It has served as a key resource for dozens of courses offered at universities around the world - courses in History, Judaic Studies, Political Science, Religious Studies, Sociology, Film/Cinema, Anthropology, Ger¬man/Eastern European/Slavic Studies, Women's/Gender Studies, English, French, Art, Communications, Education, Psychology, Philosophy, and Comparative. Examples include:

• Remembering + Narrating = History?: Introduction to Historical Science Theories (History, Freie Universität-Berlin)
  
• Psychological Adjustment following Traumatic Life Events: the Case of Genocide (Psychology, University of Southern California)
  
• Visuality and Violence (Women & Gender/American Studies, Yale University)
  
• Human Rights & Genocide Workshop (Education, University of Minnesota)
  
• Recording Oral History: History and Practice (History, Monash University, Australia)
  
• Between Resistance & Collaboration: Individuals Responding to National Socialism (German Studies, Rice University)
  
• Holocaust as Public History (History, University of California-San Diego)
  

Posted by Pamela McLaughlin on November 5, 2010 | Permalink

Syracuse University Library announces the launch of SUrface, a full-text, multi-media online database that provides open access to the extensive and diverse array of scholarly, professional, scientific, and creative output produced at Syracuse University. At the same time, SUrface increases the visibility of authors' works; maximizes research impact; facilitates interdisciplinary research; and provides local, regional, and global communities with immediate and permanent access.

A launch party will be held Monday, October 18, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons of Bird Library. Cake and light refreshments will be served. All faculty and graduate students are invited to attend.

Special workshops will take place in room 046 of Bird Library to introduce SUrface to those interested in depositing their work. Hours are:

• Tuesday, October 19 from 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
  
• Wednesday, October 20 from 10:00 a.m. to noon
  
• Thursday, October 21 from 3:30 - 5:30
  

Why join SUrface?
• Increase your visibility
• Showcase your work in multiple formats
• Learn what colleagues are doing
• Engage with the local and global community
• Preserve your electronic research

Making accessible the knowledge, creativity, research, and innovation of Syracuse University is the very essence of "scholarship in action" and helps facilitate the crucial mission of the university as a public good.

About SUrface
Beginning in December 2009, a team of librarians, staff, and students from the Syracuse University Library, the H. Douglas Barclay Law Library, the University Archives, Syracuse University Press, and the iSchool, with advice and consultation from University faculty, collaboratively planned and implemented SUrface, the Syracuse University Research Facility And Collaborative Environment. Their efforts are now reaching fruition, with over 1,000 Syracuse University documents now housed in SUrface.

For more information, contact Charlotte Hess, Associate Dean for Research, Collections, and Scholarly Communication at 443-5528 or hess@syr.edu.

Posted by Pamela McLaughlin on October 6, 2010 | Permalink

Syracuse University Library and the iSchool will serve as local hosts for the Handheld Librarian Online Conference, an annual conference about mobile library applications and services. The program runs from 11:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. on February 17 and 18, 2010.

Keynote speakers and topics include:
• Joan K. Lippincott, Associate Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI): "Mobilizing Libraries for Today's Students"
• Alison Miller, Doctoral student at the iSchool: "Mobile Trends and Social Reference"
• Tom Peters, CEO of TAP Information Services: "Morphing with Mobile"
• Joe Murphy, libraryfuture on Twitter: "This is Now: The Mobile Library"

Topics for the conference include: Mobile Reference; E-books; Mobile Aps; Websites; and Content.

The schedule of sessions available at SU is available at: http://researchguides.library.syr.edu/hhconference All sessions will be held in Bird Library.

Please rsvp to Donna Sullivan, dlsulliv@syr.edu, indicating which day(s)/session(s) you wish to attend. Space may be limited for some sessions. There is no registration fee for SU students, faculty, and staff; registration fees for the SU site have been covered by of the iSchool.

Full information about the speakers and events is available at http://www.handheldlibrarian.org/schedule2010 (please note that time listed on the conference web site are in CST, requiring a one hour adjustment).

For more information, please contact Jill Hurst-Wahl (jahurst@syr.edu) in the iSchool or Tasha Cooper (nacoop01@syr.edu) in the Library.

Posted by Pamela McLaughlin on February 16, 2010 | Permalink

Syracuse University Library Associates will present "The Death of History: Natural Causes or Murder?," a lecture by historian and video archivist Fred MacDonald, on Thursday, September 23 at 5 p.m. in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, First Floor, Bird Library, 222 Waverly Avenue.

Performing an "autopsy" on the traditional study of history, MacDonald contends that in the digital age primary documents-the raw materials essential to an understanding of the past- are easily, casually, and regularly being relegated to the obscurity of basements around the world through online auctions. Most of these documents will be forever lost to public scholarship. MacDonald will discuss efforts to save the principal evidence of our past from amateur collectors, impulse buyers, and ideological revisionists.

MacDonald is Professor Emeritus of History at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago and founder and president of MacDonald & Associates, whose holdings constitute one of the largest private repositories of films and television programs in the world. Clients of his archive include the BBC, NHK (Japan), and every major U.S. motion picture studio and television network. He is the author of six books and numerous articles on the history of American popular culture, available for free online reading at www.jfredmacdonald.com.

The event is free and open to the public. Free event parking is available at Booth Garage, on the corner of Waverly and Comstock avenues, one block from Bird Library. For more information, visit library.syr.edu/libraryassociates.

Posted by Kathleen White on January 20, 2010 | Permalink

The Research, Collections and Scholarly Communications Unit of Syracuse University Library will present a brown bag seminar at noon on Monday, October 19, in support of International Open Access Week. Drop by the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons in Bird Library and be part of a discussion with campus peers on new models for getting your academic work seen and read. The session will include discussion of the risks and costs associated with traditional scholarly publishing. Can open access journals, online publication repositories and the like offer you more flexible publishing opportunities -- and provide greater impact at the same time? How does more conventional publishing interact with the rapidly changing online social network technologies embraced by your students? When you license your publications, do you find the licensing agreement to be a solution or a straitjacket? And how do you tell one from the other?

Beverages and snacks will be provided; feel free to bring your own lunch.

For more information about Open Access Week, see http://www.openaccessweek.org/.

Posted by Pamela McLaughlin on October 7, 2009 | Permalink

Syracuse University Library Associates will present noted political pollster John Zogby G'74 at its annual Spring Luncheon on April 30 at the Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel and Conference Center at Noon. In a presentation entitled "America's First Globals and Their Impact on the 21st Century", Zogby will offer his thoughts on the changing nature of the American Dream.

Zogby will address a rude economic reality: the number of Americans working for less has steadily climbed for decades. Even before the current recession, this was the case for more than a quarter of the population, a statistic that strikes at the heart of the materialism that once defined the American Dream. In probing the national mood, Zogby discovered that a life measured by material positions has lost its allure to a group he calls "The First Global Generation." He will explore the implications of this for marketing, politics, and American culture. The talk is based on Zogby's recent book, The Way We'll Be, which will be available for purchase at the luncheon. The author will sign copies at the conclusion of his presentation.

Zogby made his hometown, Utica, the headquarters for Zogby International, a worldwide leader in market research and public opinion polling. A senior advisor to Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, he serves as a trustee of his alma mater, Le Moyne College, and holds a master's degree in history from SU.

The luncheon begins at noon, with Zogby's talk to follow. The event also includes the awarding of the annual Mary Hatch Marshall Essay Award for the best essay by a graduate student in the College of Arts and Sciences. The luncheon costs $25 for Library Associates members and $30 for non-members.

For more information, contact Kathleen White at 443-8782 or kswhite@syr.edu. To learn more about the Library Associates visit library.syr.edu/libraryassociates.

Posted by Kathleen White on April 14, 2009 | Permalink

Syracuse University Library, in partnership with Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts and the Syracuse City School District, is now presenting “An Alphabet in Your Own Backyard”, an exhibition of handmade accordion books.

The exhibition is currently located in the new display case on the first floor of Bird Library until the end of the February. It will then move to the sixth floor exhibition space where it will remain until the end of spring semester. The exhibit is free and open to the public.

The exhibit showcases books created by students from Henninger High School and Syracuse University. In the fall semester, VPA professor Gail Hoffman's freshman ‘Foundation 2-D Creative Processes' class worked with Henninger High School art teacher Lori Schneider's class of advanced design students. SU students were paired up with Henninger students and the teams used cameras to capture natural images resembling letters, such as a ladder resembling an “A”, to create the alphabet in images. Students used the images to create an accordion book.

“An Alphabet in Your Own Backyard” exhibition is the first stage of a two-year collaborative community project. Funded by SU's Enitiative with funds from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the project will connect Syracuse University with the broader Syracuse community, educate both Syracuse University and Syracuse City School District students about the book arts, and teach Syracuse University students entrepreneurial skills related to creating, marketing, and managing a new product. From this exhibition of handmade books, a jury of design faculty will select twenty six letters to create a final alphabet accordion book that will be professionally printed.

For more information on this exhibit, please contact Peter Verheyen, pdverhey@syr.edu or 443-9756

Posted by Kathleen White on February 20, 2009 | Permalink

Syracuse University Library's Special Collections Research Center (SCRC), in conjunction with this year's Syracuse Symposium and its theme of "migration," will present a fall exhibition titled "Dawn of a New Age: The Immigrant Contribution to the Arts in America."
The exhibition, which is free and open to the public, runs Sept. 8-Jan. 20 in the SCRC gallery on the sixth floor of E.S. Bird Library. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday from 9 a.m.-5 p.m., except holidays. For more information, call (315) 443-2697.

"Dawn of a New Age" tells the story of five artists who immigrated to the United States during the first half of the 20th century: Adolph Bolm, a Russian dancer and choreographer who performed with the Mariinsky Ballet and Ballets Russes; William Lescaze, a Swiss architect who was one of the pioneers of modernism; Louis Lozowick, a Russian printmaker known for his Art Deco and Precision lithographs; Miklós Rózsa, a Hungarian composer of more than 100 film scores, including "Ben Hur"; and John Vassos, a Greek illustrator and industrial designer. The exhibition draws from the rich holdings of SCRC and showcases more than 50 of the artists' personal papers, manuscripts, photos and artifacts.

"In keeping with the theme of 'migration,' the exhibition traces each person's humble beginnings and the process by which he immigrated to the United States and later shaped modern culture," says co-curator Nicolette A. Dobrowolski. "These artists, individually and collectively, created a dynamic new vision for America."

With more than 100,000 printed works and 2,000 manuscript and archival collections, SCRC is home to some of SU's most valued treasures, including early printed editions of Gutenberg, Galileo and Sir Isaac Newton, as well as the library of 19th-century German historian Leopold Von Ranke. Twentieth-century holdings are particularly strong and include the personal papers and manuscripts of such luminaries as artist Grace Hartigan, inspirational preacher Norman Vincent Peale, author Joyce Carol Oates, photojournalist Margaret Bourke White and industrial designer Walter Dorwin Teague, as well as the records of organizations including avant-garde publisher Grove Press. SCRC regularly hosts exhibitions, lectures and classes, and offers fellowships and internships in library instruction and conservation. More information is available at http://scrc.syr.edu.

Syracuse Symposium is a semester-long intellectual and artistic festival about interdisciplinary thinking, imagining and creating, presented by The College of Arts and Sciences for the Syracuse community. More information on lectures, performances, exhibits and other special events is available at http://syracusesymposium.org.

Posted by Kathleen White on October 1, 2008 | Permalink

Syracuse University Library Associates invites members and friends to a lecture, "Out of the Sky: 9/ll, a Tribute," presented by Werner Pfeiffer, sculptor and book artist. The event will take place at 4 p.m. Thursday, September 11 at the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, First Floor, Bird Library, Syracuse University.

Free event parking is available in Booth Garage on the corner of Waverly and Comstock Avenues.

Pfeiffer, a native of Germany who emigrated to the United States in 1961, witnessed the tragedy first-hand. His book is a sculptural tribute to the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In the lecture, he will assemble "Out of the Sky" while commenting on the technique and inspiration behind it.

For more information on this lecture, please contact Anne Roth at 685-6832.

Posted by Kathleen White on August 25, 2008 | Permalink

The Syracuse University Library and Renée Crown University Honors Program are presenting Invasion! The Culture of Fear in America, a student-curated exhibition of books, manuscripts and art from the Special Collections Research Center. A gallery reception will be held on Tuesday, April 29, at 5 p.m. on the sixth floor of E.S. Bird Library. The exhibition runs through Sept. 5. It is free and open to the public.

During the Spring 2008 semester, students from the Renée Crown University Honors Program taking the course American Fear, taught by Sean Quimby, director of the Special Collections Research Center, explored the history of fear in American life by immersing themselves in the Library’s primary resource collections.

The students worked diligently to produce an exhibition that accurately illustrates the concept of fear in the United States. They felt that the theme of “invasion” underlies many of our historical anxieties relating to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation and a host of other issues. The idea that different people, aliens or even epidemics, like the AIDS virus during the 1980s, might infiltrate society and bring about sweeping change has been cause for extreme fear in the American experience. Fundamentally, the exhibition raises questions of identity, and the class hopes that visitors will “understand their differences and be less discriminating in their actions.”

Among the exhibited works that illuminate the roots of our culture of fear are a 1651 edition of Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan, Cotton Mather’s 1693 account of the Salem Witch trials, the literature of the Red Scare, a variety of pulp science fiction magazines and Werner Pfeiffer’s sculptural tribute to the victims of 9/11, Out of the Sky.

Posted by Pamela McLaughlin on April 29, 2008 | Permalink

Visit the new Biblio Gallery on the 4th floor of Bird Library, now showing the artwork of Elena Peteva, MFA candidate in Painting in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. The show will run through June 30, 2007.

The Biblio Gallery web site is located at http://library.syr.edu/information/finearts/SULibraryArtExhibits.html.
For more information, contact Melinda Dermody, head of Arts and Humanities Services at 443-5332 or via email at mderm01@syr.edu.

Posted by Pamela McLaughlin on April 26, 2007 | Permalink

Students, stop running around during this busy time of year. Take advantage of a special series of open research workshops at E.S. Bird Library. Come to one of these Crunch Time at 9 sessions to get personalized research help from a librarian on your final papers and projects. Sessions are March 27, 28, and April 4 from 9:00 - 10:30 p.m. and March 28 from 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. in the Electronic Training Center, Room 046, E.S. Bird Library. Contact Michael Pasqualoni for more information at 443-3715 or email mjpasqua@syr.edu. No RSVP necessary. Drop in when you can, stay as long as you need. For additional research help at other times, remember to visit the Library's "Ask Us" Reference & Research Assistance page at http://library.syr.edu/information/reference/index.html

Posted by Pamela McLaughlin on March 12, 2007 | Permalink

The Library will offer training sessions for international students on library resources and services as well as important information literacy skills such as evaluating sources and avoiding plagiarism. The sessions will be held in February, March and April in the Slutzker International Center. The complete schedule is available at: http://library.syr.edu/instruction/Internationalstclasssp07.html

An introductory web page specificially for international students is also available on the Library's website at: http://library.syr.edu/instruction/international/welcome.htm

Posted by Pamela McLaughlin on February 9, 2007 | Permalink

Thursday, June 10, 2004
3:00-4:30 p.m.
E.S. Bird Library
1916 Room

Institutional repositories (IRs) represent a rapidly growing movement in scholarly communication to collect, preserve, and provide access to the digital resources of scholarly research. This live, interactive Web presentation brings to you information about IRs and their increasing importance to scholarly communication. By providing you with direct access to hands-on experts, this Webcast gives library staff, campus faculty, and administrators an opportunity to explore this topic in a shared learning environment.

Rick Johnson, SPARC Enterprise Director, will begin this session with an introduction to the Webcast, followed by three panelists who will discuss institutional repositories' benefits, uses, and users. In addition, the panelists will address concerns and answer viewer questions as a means to begin or further discussion on campuses.

Panelists

Susan Gibbons, Assistant Dean for Public Services & Collection Development, University of Rochester, River Campus Libraries

Daniel Greenstein, Associate Vice Provost for Scholarly Information,
University Librarian for Systemwide Library Planning and the California
Digital Library (CDL)

Kathleen Shearer, Research Associate, Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL)

Target Audience

* College and University Faculty and Administrators

* Librarians who want to stay current with developments in scholarly communication, particularly those who work with faculty and researchers

Posted by on May 21, 2004 | Permalink

Join Mariana Lebron, Director of SU's Orientation and Transition Services, and Professor Jerry Evensky, SU's Faculty Assistant for the First- Year Experience, for a Peer to Peer discussion entitled:

Shared Reading Programs for First-Year Students: A Role for Libraries

Peer to Peer Library Dialog
Wednesday May 5
Noon - 1pm
1916 Room - E.S. Bird Library

In recent years, colleges and universities have begun to give special attention to first-year students, often introducing summer reading projects tied to the first-year experience. For example, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill chooses a book to be read by all incoming freshman, the goals being "to enhance students' participation in the intellectual life of the campus through stimulating discussion and critical thinking around a current topic, to enhance a sense of community between students, faculty and staff, and to provide a common experience for incoming students" (See UNC-CH Website listed below.).

In 2003, Syracuse University, too, established a summer reading program for entering freshmen. We will focus on ways in which libraries can contribute to initiatives for enriching students' first-year experiences.

You may wish to consider the following articles and Web sites (Articles are available via SUMMIT Catalog-online course reserve-"LBR 100."):

Rodney, Mae L. "Building Community Partnerships: The 'One Book, One Community' Experience." College and Research Libraries News. (March 2004), 65 (3), p. 130-132, 155. http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/backissues2004/march04/communitypartnerships.htm

O'Connor, Erin. "Misreading What Reading Is For." Chronicle of Higher Education. (September 5, 2003), p. 20.

Cornell University Library's Web site, "Antigone: 2003 New Student Reading Project: Library Resources": http://www.library.cornell.edu/iris/antigone/

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill's Web site, "Carolina Summer Reading Program" (already featuring the selection for 2004): http://www.unc.edu/srp/

Web site of the Policy Center on the First Year of College: http://www.brevard.edu/fyc/

Hope to see you there. Light refreshments provided. Bring a lunch. All are welcome!

Peer to Peer Library Dialog is a staff initiated program of monthly discussion about trends and current topics of interest in librarianship. Send comments or questions to Lydia Wasylenko lwwasyle@syr.edu

Posted by on April 23, 2004 | Permalink

"On the Spot" with Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Marguerite Higgins, 1920-1966. The exhibition features correspondence, writings, photographs, and other memorabilia from the Marguerite Higgins Papers housed in the Special Collections Research Center.

The exhibition is on display from April 6 through August 13, 2004, Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the 6th floor gallery of E.S. Bird Library.

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Peter D. Verheyen
Preservation & Access Librarian / Conservation Librarian
Special Collections Research Center
pdverhey@syr.edu

Posted by on April 3, 2004 | Permalink

On Thursday, April 15, 2004, at 4 p.m. in the Hillyer Room on the sixth floor of E.S. Bird Library, Robert Phillips will give a talk and a reading from his forthcoming collection of poems, Circumstances Beyond Our Control (Johns Hopkins University Press).

Phillips (M.A., Syracuse University, 1962) is Rebecca and John Moores Professor of English at the University of Houston, where he also served as director of the graduate creative writing program from 1991 to 1996. A prize-winning poet, fiction writer, and critic, Phillips is the author of more than 30 books, including poetry collections Spinach Days and Breakdown Lane, and short-story collections News About People You Know, Public Landing Revisited, and Land of Lost Content. Notable among his critical works are editions of the letters of William Goyen and Delmore Schwartz.

Phillips�s honors include a Pushcart Prize, an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, an Enron Teaching Excellence Award, a New York State Council on the Arts CAPS Grant in Poetry, MacDowell Colony and Yaddo fellowships, a National Public Radio Syndicated Fiction Project Award, membership in the Texas Institute of Letters, and a Syracuse University Arents Pioneer Medal for distinguished alumni achievement.

This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.

Note: Immediately following Phillips�s talk and reception, there will be a special program, beginning at 5:30 p.m. in the Schine Student Center�s Goldstein Auditorium, to honor Chancellor Kenneth A. Shaw and Mary Ann Shaw for their 13 years of dedicated service to the University. All are welcome.

CONTACT
Mary Beth Hinton
Syracuse University Library
315-443-2130
mbhinton@syr.edu

Posted by on March 22, 2004 | Permalink

Friday, April 2, 2004
4pm
Hillyer Room
E.S. Bird Library

J.P. Carley, Distinguished Research Professor at York University in Toronto, will lecture on April 2, 2004, at 4 p.m. in the Hillyer Room on the sixth floor of E.S. Bird Library on the Syracuse University campus. His lecture is titled "The Libraries of King Henry VIII: The Ones that Got Away."

Celebrated for his magnificence, daring in his defiance of papal authority, and restless in his choice of wives, Henry VIII was also one of the most intelligent and widely read monarchs of the Renaissance. In the wake of the destruction of the monasteries, he acquired a vast quantity of books, and with them filled the shelves of his palace libraries. His is one of the foundation collections of the British Library-though, over the centuries, many interesting items escaped to the New World.

J.P. Carley specializes in the late medieval and early modern period. His previous work has included editions of texts from Glastonbury Abbey and a general history of the Abbey. He has co-edited a collection of essays on the Tudor translator Henry Parker, Lord Morley; and he is one of the editors in the Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues series published by the British Library; The Books of King Henry VIII and His Wives is a companion piece to his volume on The Libraries of King Henry VIII in this series.

This event is part of The History of the Book Seminar Series at Syracuse University, sponsored by the University Library; the Dean's Office, College of Arts and Sciences; the Departments of Anthropology English, History, Philosophy, and Religion, and of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics; and the School of Information Studies.

This event is free and open to the public.

Posted by on March 16, 2004 | Permalink

Thursday, April 8th, 2004
2:30 - 4:00pm
E.S. Bird Library, 1916 Room

Find out how to identify external and internal threats to your institution's cybersecurity, overcome system vulnerabilities, and act aggressively to establish cyber-defense. If you're nervous about your institution's vulnerability to hack attack or your system being used to attack others, you have good cause. Higher education is especially susceptible because of its extensive computing power, the large amounts of information it has on hand, and the relatively open access that is part of its culture. Indeed, the "it can't happen here" attitude has all but disappeared in light of an increasing number of system violations and cyber crimes by external hackers as well as dishonest, disgruntled, irresponsible or un-informed students and staff.

According to one expert, simply using the procedural and technological safeguards that are available now would make systems much more secure. Indeed, one study says that 90 percent of cyber attacks in the near future will take advantage of vulnerabilities for which a patch is already available. Of course cybersecurity must involve all users, not just system administrators.

By participating in this teleconference, college administrators and technical staff will gain essential information on:

• doing risk assessments
• identifying the most common vulnerabilities
• dealing with an attack if it occurs
• the importance of creating, implementing and policing an institutional policy
• that raises awareness of the problems and gets essential information to all users

Produced in cooperation with the American Association of Community Colleges.
Co-sponsored by Syracuse University Library and Faculty Computing & Media Services

Posted by on March 9, 2004 | Permalink

Wednesday, March 3
Noon - 1pm
1916A Room - E.S. Bird Library

Join Yuming Tung, Head of Syracuse University Library's Information Systems Division, and SU Library systems staff, for a Peer to Peer discussion entitled: Everything You Always Wanted to Know about the Library's Network and Computer System...But Were Afraid to Ask.

Stop by for a brief explanation of the servers and computer networks we use at SU Library everyday, followed by discussion of topics such as: What are the Pros and Cons of Decentralized vs. Centralized Computing? Why the Different Configurations for Public vs. Staff Workstations? How are we Responding to Viruses, Security Holes and Spyware? Which Specific New Technologies are Impacting Academic Libraries and Campuses Most (e.g., wireless networking, etc.)

Those interested in reading more about this topic are also welcome to review the following online articles:

Bradley Mitchell's "About" page on Wireless/Networking
http://compnetworking.about.com/

Crawford, G & Rudy, Julia A. (2003). Fourth Annual EDUCAUSE Survey Identifies Current IT Issues. EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 26(2), 12-26.
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/eqm0322.pdf

Canadian Broadcasting Company (2003, July 23). Beware Using Public Computers.
http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/07/23/Consumers/Internet_030723

Peer to Peer Library Dialog is a staff initiated program of monthly discussion about trends and current topics of interest in librarianship. Send comments or questions to Michael Pasqualoni mjpasqua@syr.edu

Posted by on February 27, 2004 | Permalink

Thursday, March 4
4:00pm
6th Floor Gallery
E.S. Bird Library

On Thursday, March 4, 2004, at 4 p.m. in the sixth-floor gallery of E.S. Bird Library on the SU campus, William La Moy will offer an introductory talk and guided tour of the exhibition titled Paper-Type-Image: Elements of the Fine Press Book, which is currently on display in the Special Collections Research Center. According to La Moy, fine press books are collaborative productions "in which the individual components have a unity that overcomes their disparateness." His selection of primarily recent works from the Center's holdings includes books to which local artists contributed, among them printers Michael and Winifred Bixler of Skaneateles, and the Library's conservators, Peter Verheyen and Donia Conn. The exhibition can be viewed Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. through March 26, 2004.

La Moy joined Syracuse University Library's Special Collections Research Center on December 1, 2003. Previously, he was James Duncan Phillips Librarian and director of publications of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. He has been involved in large-scale scholarly editing projects, including the catalogs of the Harvard-Yenching Library and The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence. La Moy holds a B.A. in English language and literature from Yale University and an M.S. from Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science.

CONTACT
Mary Beth Hinton
Syracuse University Library
315-443-2130
mbhinton@syr.edu

Posted by on February 27, 2004 | Permalink

Cost is not just a matter of dollars and cents. Discover the hidden costs of creating online courses "on the cheap," how to calculate the true costs, the resources needed to develop effective online courses, and ways to control costs without degrading quality.

"Thanks, but we already know our costs," you may say. But in the same way that developing and teaching courses online requires new paradigms and methods, "costing" methodology for online courses also requires new approaches.

Colleges and universities understandably want to compare the costs of online and face-to-face instruction, but the way budgets are often built and tracked may make it difficult to know all the real costs.

To make the most of your resources--and achieve your goals--you must understand the true costs. Whether your institution is new to online courses, wants more accurate financial data for the online courses it already offers, or needs tips on how to spend its distance education dollars more effectively, this teleconference will help you discover and understand the true costs and make more informed decisions.

You'll examine:

• ways of calculating fixed and variable costs
  
• methods for reducing fixed costs
  
• the impact of "unbundling" instructor functions
  
• the importance of scalability
  
• ways the "learning curve" can be a cost factor in converting traditional courses to an online format
  
• why poor course quality and low retention rates can be a major cost
  

Panelists
Katherine Cobb is President of the Brevard Community College Virtual Campus in Cocoa, FL, where her responsibilities include overseeing the creation and implementation of over 300 online courses enrolling over 9,000 students each year.

Brian Finnegan plays a key role in evaluating, budgeting for and supporting instructional technologies to be used in online and other courses at all 34 public colleges and universities in the University System of Georgia.

Dennis Jones played a major role in the development of the Technology Costing Method, which is widely recognized as the most authoritative approach to establishing and analyzing the costs of distance education courses.

Continue reading "The REAL Cost of Online Courses: Critical Challenges in Higher Education Series a teleconference to be held February 26, 2:30pm in E.S. Bird Library" »

Posted by on February 27, 2004 | Permalink